What ARE Modes and how do they relate to the guitar? That's what we're talking about today. First off - a mode is part of the scale, or rather, it IS a scale. You can apply them to major or minor; diatonic or pentatonic.

The diatonic scale has seven notes, and basically a mode is just re-starting the same scale from a different position in that scale. For instance, if your scale is like this:
ABCDEFGA

then you can also play that same scale like this:
DEFGABCD

In that instance, you're just starting from the fourth scale degree, but you're still playing the same scale (which is A diatonic minor by the way).

The seven modes (note one for each scale position) are as follows:
I - Ionian
II - Dorian
III - Phrygian
IV - Lydian
V - Mixolydian
VI - Aeolian
VII - Locrian

In the example, I played all the modes using the same basic scale pattern, though of course you can create new scale patterns for each mode all over the fretboard, for instance each scale could start from a different position on the 6th string.

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